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  1. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    gregsglass, Mar 16, 2015
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  2. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Very cool site, Greg!

    My Dad was an Aviation Cadet in California after graduating from Stevens Institute under the Naval Reserve V-1 program. I wonder if they had similar setups out there. Because the war ended while he was in training, he never had to fly into combat, thank goodness.
     
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  3. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    YAY for him!!! My bro went to Stevens!
     
    KingofThings, Mar 16, 2015
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  4. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    It seems I have to try to dig out my photo of the USS Langley. It's pretty amazing.
     
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  5. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    Did anyone ever read Fly Boys? I've forgotten the author's name at the moment, but it was a part of WWII you don't learn in school.
     
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  6. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Which reminds me of a scene from a movies, but it was an actual procedure: the young fighter pilots were being taught to instantly reccognize other aircraft. Pictures were being flashed across a movie screen in nanoseconds, and the boys were complaining that it was too fast. Until a pinup girl was inserted -- THAT they identified ASAP!
     
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  7. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    I have that standing by with many other books waiting to be read.... :) :)
    If you want to not imagine but read what it was like to train to secretly launch B-25s from a carrier read 'The First Heroes'. Did anyone else read this? :wideyed:
     
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  8. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Hey -- I'm still impressed by Tom Swift!
     
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  9. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    And well you should be. ;)
     
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  10. 42Skeezix

    42Skeezix Moderator Moderator

    This is a Yardlong of the airship Los Angeles by the Lakehurst dirigible hanger.
    Think Hindenburg.

    [​IMG]

    My Dad flew an AT 6 "Texan", the army version of the SNJs shown in many of the above photos, through that hanger long ago.

    1990 photo of the hanger. (It's still there.)
    Notice the cars bottom right.

    [​IMG]
     
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  11. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Are these your personal photos?
    I have Lakehurst on my visit list next NJ trip. :)
     
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  12. 42Skeezix

    42Skeezix Moderator Moderator

    The yardlong was. I've since sold it. Not a personal photo as in taken by my Dad or anything. I just owned it for awhile.
    The other photo is just off the web.

    It's a pretty neat place. I've flown model airplanes inside the hanger. Not gas, mostly rubber and electric power. Me, mostly rubber power, and hand launch gliders.
     
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  13. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    I would've liked to have had it. :( Did you copy it? :)
     
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  14. 42Skeezix

    42Skeezix Moderator Moderator

    No, but I've had at least three original (1929...IIRC) copies over the years. This one, another framed example, and one matted. They're out there.
    BTW I did get quite a lot for it/them.
     
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  15. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    I expect you did and may have seen it if eBay. Too bad you didn't copy it/them. :(
     
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  16. 42Skeezix

    42Skeezix Moderator Moderator

    Not eBay, Brimfield...for two, the other was Lambertville in N.J. just last year. That was this one.
     
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